. The operating room, a primer for pupil nurses. Fig. 16.—Opening towel properly folded (to the center twice). The basin in which the surgeon occasionally rinses offhis bloody gloves was steam-sterilized and lifted out by anurse, either with forceps or holding it only by the out-side, and supporting it from the bottom while being filledwith sterile water at the sterilizer faucets. These basins ASEPSIS 121 lie face down in the utensil sterilizer so that the steam willrise into them. The scrubbed nurse takes out whatgoes on the sterile tables, and the unscrubbed nurse whatgoes on the F
. The operating room, a primer for pupil nurses. Fig. 16.—Opening towel properly folded (to the center twice). The basin in which the surgeon occasionally rinses offhis bloody gloves was steam-sterilized and lifted out by anurse, either with forceps or holding it only by the out-side, and supporting it from the bottom while being filledwith sterile water at the sterilizer faucets. These basins ASEPSIS 121 lie face down in the utensil sterilizer so that the steam willrise into them. The scrubbed nurse takes out whatgoes on the sterile tables, and the unscrubbed nurse whatgoes on the Fig. 17.—Laying a sterile towel by the field of operation, openedonly after passing the surgeon. The moment an incision is made none of these thingsare any longer sterile, yet the operation proceeds withasepsis. Contact with the patients blood and tissues hascontaminated all the assistants, but they do not bring any 122 OPERATING ROOM other germs to the patient. But his blood may containtyphoid, syphilis, or tuberculosis, and if injected intoanother living being might cause instant death. A surgeonshould not say, I cant write it now, Im sterile/7 becausehe is not sterile any longer after he has exposed the sub-cutaneous tissue. He would not cut out a piece of thattissue and rub it in his own eyes. A part from thatwound might infect the patients own eyes. Therefore,nothing that has touched that patient, or that has duringthe operation been handled by anyone touching thatpatient, should be used in a second case without beingsterilized again. In setting up for a case the nurse should o
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